16 Quotes By Charles Kettering


High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering on business

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering on change

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering on education

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering on failure

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering on failure

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering on future

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering on future

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering on future

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering on future

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering on hope

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering on imagination

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering on imagination

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering on intelligence

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering on science

One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering on success

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering on work